How has your art evolved over time? Desire and necessity are the catalysts in the evolution of my art. I often tell the story of how my two year old painted white oil paint on a portrait I was working on which spurred my investment in…

Tell us about your marketing journey…how did you start? I learned a few things from my mother who did PR for our theater group, when I danced and sang in musicals. Her example taught me to be fearless about just asking…

Tell us about your work? My work is a visual journey, exploring what calls me, often those things which bring me joy or contemplation. My work is spiritual, color saturated…

A few weeks back I wrote about TopazLabs application TopazAdjust3, and I liked it so well that it obviously influenced me to take a look at its …

Recently a couple of things boinked me on the head (not literally!!) that helped me remember that I needed to remind folks of. See, now is the time especially for those nomadic artists out there to suck it up, kick those…

Artist Statement I respond to what catches my eyes and heart using colors, shapes and lines. I desire to capture simple pleasures, wind in the trees, atmospheric reflections, people and places around the world. I personify …

A few weeks ago we launched our Artsyfartsy Biz Award program and recognized five artists who have actively developed their art into a business. They have each followed their own intuition and instincts to make sure their art gets out…

Are you afraid to commit to really incorporate business skills and tools because you might lose your creative mojo? Do you have trouble adding up 2+2 to get 4?  Have you shied away from thinking about business because it…

Our first batch of artsyfartsy bizes who have definitly earned the title of artsyfartsy biz. Please take a badge,  and display it proudly because you are the models for today and future’s art businesses…you deserve it. To learn what it takes to become an…

Ya…that thing that starts with an “M” that makes you cring, vomit and curl up in a ball in the corner. And, we have ranted and raved abut this quite a lot so let’…

I don’t know how many hours I have put in writing actions to allow me to produce some of the currently popular photoshop effects; really more than I want to admit.  By the time I’ve …

A  while back I talked about the 80/20 rule but it’s not really a rule or a law it is how things magically work in business. Reminder: Briefly the 80/20 rule says that 80…

Last week we talked about why your list was one of the absolute most important parts of your  business and that you had to approach the problem using both off-line and online tactics. This week we are gong to focus on on-line techniques and …

2day we’re going take a break from twits & upd8s and take a look at the other part of your marketing strategy…how to develop an off line strategy that compliments and supports your on-line efforts.There are three key elements to this strategy…

Over the past few weeks I have been working on creating ways to feature Artists and their blogs in a way that encourages them to grow. Two of the ways I have come up with are Adding a feature…

Now that you have taken the leap into the world marketing the next important step you need to take is to start collecting, analyzing  and organizing the intell you are gathering. What intell you ask? All of the information you are collecting about your market is your intell and …